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Average earned income tax credit: U.S. states ranked (2023)

Measure: Average earned income tax credit ($, derived). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Federal income tax returns by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2023.

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Data last updated
2026-11-09
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National value: 2,717 (United States).

Washington: 2,363Idaho: 2,484Montana: 2,324North Dakota: 2,453Minnesota: 2,410Michigan: 2,783Ohio: 2,768Pennsylvania: 2,586New York: 2,596Vermont: 2,095New Hampshire: 2,107Maine: 2,228Arizona: 2,764California: 2,499New Mexico: 2,654Texas: 3,053Louisiana: 3,239Mississippi: 3,232Alabama: 3,124Florida: 2,651Georgia: 3,058South Carolina: 2,847North Carolina: 2,790Virginia: 2,640District of Columbia: 2,555Maryland: 2,594Delaware: 2,678New Jersey: 2,603Connecticut: 2,462Rhode Island: 2,482Massachusetts: 2,328Oregon: 2,244Utah: 2,453Wyoming: 2,416Nevada: 2,645Colorado: 2,306South Dakota: 2,464Nebraska: 2,574Kansas: 2,633Oklahoma: 2,854Iowa: 2,577Missouri: 2,714Wisconsin: 2,480Illinois: 2,751Kentucky: 2,734Arkansas: 2,982Tennessee: 2,835West Virginia: 2,588Indiana: 2,708Alaska: 2,370Hawaii: 2,376

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • DC 2,555 $
  • RI 2,482 $
  • DE 2,678 $
  • CT 2,462 $
  • NJ 2,603 $
  • MD 2,594 $
  • MA 2,328 $
  • VT 2,095 $
  • NH 2,107 $
  • Lowest: 2,095 to 2,410 $
  • Group 2: 2,410 to 2,555 $
  • Group 3: 2,555 to 2,645 $
  • Group 4: 2,645 to 2,783 $
  • Highest: 2,783 to 3,239 $
The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.

1Louisiana3,239
2Mississippi3,232
3Alabama3,124
4Georgia3,058
5Texas3,053
6Arkansas2,982
7Oklahoma2,854
8South Carolina2,847
9Tennessee2,835
10North Carolina2,790
11Michigan2,783
12Ohio2,768
13Arizona2,764
14Illinois2,751
15Kentucky2,734
16Missouri2,714
17Indiana2,708
18Delaware2,678
19New Mexico2,654
20Florida2,651
21Nevada2,645
22Virginia2,640
23Kansas2,633
24New Jersey2,603
25New York2,596
26Maryland2,594
27West Virginia2,588
28Pennsylvania2,586
29Iowa2,577
30Nebraska2,574
31District of Columbia2,555
32California2,499
33Idaho2,484
34Rhode Island2,482
35Wisconsin2,480
36South Dakota2,464
37Connecticut2,462
38North Dakota2,453
38Utah2,453
40Wyoming2,416
41Minnesota2,410
42Hawaii2,376
43Alaska2,370
44Washington2,363
45Massachusetts2,328
46Montana2,324
47Colorado2,306
48Oregon2,244
49Maine2,228
50New Hampshire2,107
51Vermont2,095

Source: Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income, SOI Tax Stats, Historic Table 2: individual income and tax data by state, tax year 2023 (23in55cmcsv.csv). Reference period: 2023.

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U.S. states ranked by average earned income tax credit ($, derived) (2023). Data: Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income, SOI Tax Stats, Historic Table 2: individual income and tax data by state, tax year 2023 (23in55cmcsv.csv); rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-average-earned-income-tax-credit/

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